Example sentences of "had [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Sylvia had eventually to translate her visualization into reality , so too did Clive . |
| 2 | During the persecutions those who had most to lose in terms of this world 's goods were the rich Christians , whose property was liable to confiscation unless they ‘ apostatized ’ . |
| 3 | They were the merchants , traders and businessmen of the north-east Mediterranean coast who had most to lose if the Shias could establish themselves in the economic life of the Levant . |
| 4 | Service attitudes — even in the RAF , which had most to gain from the Sandys Reformation — were bitterly hostile . |
| 5 | Naturally the monks of St Denis , who had most to gain by it , were happy to keep Suger 's tradition fresh . |
| 6 | The Communist Party had most to gain by combination with other groups , for with its strong discipline it could always hope to attract supporters from allied groups without losing many of its own members . |
| 7 | Of the rest the LoProfile had most to offer but lacked the extra function keys of the Fuller . |
| 8 | Irene had three much older spinster sisters who adored her , and her one consolation when she was discharged from the Waaf was that she had somewhere to go and three loving sisters to look after her . |
| 9 | You think you 've been hurt , and yes , you have , but you 're still better off than the ones who had to spend their time in institutions , you still had somewhere to go , did n't you . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 11 | We had somewhere to find annual running costs of about £100,000 a year out of the existing budget . |
| 12 | He was still doing it over an hour later , frantically trying to remember everything and wishing he had somewhere to write it all down , when there was a sound of feet running up the stairs . |
| 13 | Wish I had somewhere to hide . |
| 14 | Spokespeople or representatives had constantly to justify their activities and statements to committees , which in turn would have to report back to steering groups and working parties elected by conferences and regional groups . |
| 15 | The failure to keep the categories of life and literature distinct led to all kinds of heresy and nonsense : to ‘ liking ’ and ‘ not liking ’ books for instance , preferring some authors to others and such-like whimsicalities which , he had constantly to remind his students , were of no conceivable interest to anyone except themselves ( sometimes he shocked them by declaring that , speaking personally on this low , subjective level , he found jane Austen a pain in the ass ) . |
| 16 | Rather than producing a brave new economic world , the ECSC and its High Authority had constantly to wrestle with national objections and intransigence . |
| 17 | The founder of the Movement , and consequently one of the best-known Communist leaders , Wal Hannington had constantly to assert the autonomy of the NUWM . |
| 18 | There was no point in past music with which he had to reconcile what he wanted to say , or to which he had necessarily to make reference . |
| 19 | They were also aware of an even deeper change in the texture of Christianity : it had become the religion of a warrior nobility whose values and culture it had necessarily to absorb in the process of Christianizing them . |
| 20 | What remains indeterminate is whether Jesus was truly convinced that he himself had literally to die , or whether it was sufficient that he appear to die . |
| 21 | Myself and half the management team piled into a speedboat and had literally to flee for our lives . ’ |
| 22 | There were , for example , no through trains from the East India Railway to the Oudh and Rohilkan railway , and pilgrims together with other travellers had all to change trains at Moghalsarai junction , a mere ten miles from the great pilgrim city of Benares ( now Varanasi ) . |
| 23 | They had all to bear with it , Phillis , the doubtful prize — still it might stand up , the Weasel only half a nose , he could hardly be particular — the crooked cops they got their man and Rab claimed his insurance . |
| 24 | He had only to pick one of them up to be transported back to the time and place of its acquisition . |
| 25 | Some trepidation did exist therefore on this occasion but I was fortunate and the MV Brendan had only to negotiate a slight swell on its way past Eriskay to South Uist . |
| 26 | He had only to close his eyes and the image of her would come to him , taking his breath . |
| 27 | He had only to fumble in the pocket of his sports jacket , preparatory to taking out his pipe , and she was at his elbow striking on a musical lighter which tinkled out the tune of ‘ Come Back to Sorrento ’ . |
| 28 | But if drink lost him respect , he never lost the admiration of one College porter who said you had only to watch him cross the street to know he was a genius . |
| 29 | She had only to watch the porter 's moves next day to learn the times when he visited his charge , and espy where the two keys of the penal cells hung side by side in the gatehouse . |
| 30 | • You had only to watch Curtis Strange shoot that all-time record 62 at St. Andrews in a Dunhill Cup to realise golf has become a whole new ball game . |